From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-07-28T00:59:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Triming characters from the front of a String...

On Jul 27, 9:13 am, Sebastian Hungerecker <sep...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> sketchi...@gmail.com wrote:
> > For the life of me I can't figure out an easy way to remove the first
> > couple of characters from a String. I looked in my Ruby book, searched
> > online, and checked the documentation for the String class. I must be
> > missing something obvious.
> str[x..-1] gives you str without the first x characters.

And
str[0..4]=''
will replace the first 5 characters in the string with an empty
string.

Likewise
str.sub!( /\A.{5}/m, '' )
will mutate the original string to replace the first 5 characters with
an empty string.